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Brain Teasers

1. What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
2. Find a number less than 100 that is increased by one-fifth of its value when its digits are reversed.
3. A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
4. What letter comes next in the following sequence? D R M F S L T_
5. How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?
6. In British Columbia, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
7. Can you think of a common word that contains double C, double S and double L? Can you think of a second one?
8. What number comes next in the following sequence? 2 4 8 10 20 _
9. Without it, I am dead. If I am not, then then I am behind. What am I?
10. If you wrote all of the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 3?
11. You are in a place called Jack’s World and there is only one law. There is a mirror, but no reflection. There is pizza with cheese, but not sausage. There is pepper, but no salt. There is a door, yet no entrance or exit. What is the law?
12. I come in different shapes and sizes. Parts of me are curved, other parts are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me. What am I?
13. What is black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you are all through with it?
14. It goes in dry, it comes out wet, the longer it is in, the stronger it gets. What is it?
15. I have no eyes, no legs, or ears, and I help move the earth. What am I?
16. A truck is stuck under a bridge and the driver cannot get it out. A man walks by and stops to help. He easily gets the truck unstuck. How did he do it?
17. How much dirt is there in a hole that is 3 feet deep, and 6 inches in diameter?
18. What makes more as you take them?
19. When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
20. A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

Answers:

1. Short
2. 45 (1/5 of 45 = 9, 9 + 45 = 54)
3. The ball costs 5 cents. One dollar more than 5 cents is $1.05, the sum of which is $1.10.
4. D – each letter represents one note in the diatonic musical scale: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do
5. After that, you would be subtracting from 48.
6. You cannot take a picture with a wooden leg; you need a camera.
7. Unsuccessfully.
8. 22 (the sequence alternates +2, x2)
9. Ahead
10. 120 (100 threes in the hundreds place + 10 threes in the tens place + 10 threes in the ones place)
11. Everything (each word) in Jack’s World must contain double letters.
12. A jigsaw puzzle piece
13. Charcoal
14. A tea-bag
15. An earthworm
16. He let the air out of the tires.
17. None, because a hole and contains no dirt!
18. Footsteps
19. When you add two hours to eleven o’clock, you get one o’clock.
20. The poison from the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually, as the ice cubes melted, the poison was released into the punch.